Our perceptions can be limited by our own restricted view

Where you are in relation to a thing will govern how you see it, but what you are seeing is not necessarily the reality of what the thing actually is. The interpretation of this difference is the difference between someone who discerns truth and someone who easily falls for a lie. I saw this clearly when I was heading home from a short visit with some relatives. We were driving south, and in the distance before us was one of those long flat clouds. It spread above the horizon from my left all the way to where the clear winter sun was shining on my right. The cloud was dark and gray without any variation all along its length, except for where it touched the lowering sun in the west. There, the cloud was bright and golden, and I could see form and texture that wasn’t apparent in the uniform gray to the south.

It was the same cloud, being lit by the same sun, and I realized that if I were looking at it from someplace in the southwest, I would see other parts of the cloud glowing in just the same way as the part I could see spreading its fingers towards the sun. Perhaps it would look entirely different, with the sun illuminating the texture of the bottom all along its length or changing its color entirely with a light bulb filament glow upon the edges.

My point is this: Light is everywhere. What we see in life depends very much on our perspective, and that depends upon where we are standing within ourselves––where we are positioned relative to the light. The problem is that people usually take their static view for the entire truth without realizing they aren’t seeing the whole picture. They don’t understand that each person’s position in relation to the light gives only limited information. It never occurs to them that there might be more to see, but the understanding of that never comes until a person begins to move.

It is not that people start out lying to themselves. It’s just that they never think there is anything beyond what they can see, and the view where they are stuck seems to confirm what they have come to believe. They accept what their limited view is telling them and then sit down to let life happen to them, never thinking anything can change.

What is lacking is a love of truth. That is what begins to change a person’s position relative to the light. Those who love the truth will begin to seek it, which means they begin to move, and as they start to get a bigger perspective, they understand that things are not always as they appear to be from one static position (one’s judgments of life, one’s learned categorizations of the world, one’s own self-limiting vision).

Things that are real are true in themselves, of course, but they can have a different appearance depending upon how the light shines on them. People can understand them differently from their individual views, but to get a true understanding requires inspection from different angles in the light. The awareness that there might be something more to learn usually comes from the input of others or from noticing things that don’t make sense as you were taught to understand them, but it is only when you begin to investigate truth for yourself that you start to get a clearer picture of what the whole truth might actually be. Even so, knowing the extent and the shape of a thing doesn’t necessarily reveal what it really is. For that you need to make a closer inspection. We know that clouds are made of water vapor because clever men investigated their substance, but how they look depends upon the quality and direction of light. An approaching storm can seem black as night in the full light of the sun, but when the sun is obscured, the same cloud becomes a much less threatening gray. (Therein is a lesson regarding lies that obscure the truth to make dangers seem less real or even beneficial.)

Keep up the good fight

We are all beholding the jostling clouds of current events from different positions in the light. We all have part of the truth, and just like scientists who get a full picture of the whole from assembling the data of their individual experiments, anons are assembling a clearer picture of what is really going on from their individual investigations. Even the most honest and trustworthy scientists don’t get it right 100% of the time, but when that happens they search to discover the reason, which often leads them to new insights. There is therefore no reason for anons to be discouraged when they find out they are wrong about some detail, and no one should condemn them for making a mistake. We will all get to the truth eventually if we don’t give up the search. Edison found thousands of ways not to make a lightbulb before he discovered a way that worked. A failure only tells you that you there is something more to know, not that you need to quit.

It might be discouraging to some when those who are newly embarking seem to see only the black danger of the approaching storm, but we must be patient. They have only just come to see the contrast of evil in the dazzling light of the truth, and in time they will understand what they don’t yet know if they don’t park on their limited view out of fear. (These are not the despicable ones sent in to divide and discourage us, and I think the mods do a pretty good job of discerning the difference.)

We are in a war between good and evil. The only reason it sometimes seems like evil is winning is because it has been dragged into the light. It was just as bad and just as pervasive before, but it was so cleverly hidden that no one saw it. That is the bigger perspective of what has been happening, and from that greater view it is easy to see that goodness and truth are winning the day. But beyond even that is a broader perspective revealing that evil has already lost, and that the world will soon change for the better.